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Muslim student sentenced to life for trying to kill Labour MP Stephen Timms; university fees in England and Wales could rise to £9,000 a year

The Sunday Times

November 7 2010, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE. Undated Metropolitan Police handout photo of Roshonara Choudhry, 21. The student who tried to murder a Labour MP after being inspired by a radical al Qaida cleric linked to the air cargo bomb plot is due to be sentenced today. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday November 3, 2010. A Roshonara Choudhry, 21, stabbed Stephen Timms twice in the stomach after watching online jihadi sermons by US-born Anwar al-Awlaki. Choudhry's attack on the former Treasury minister is thought to be the first al Qaida-inspired attempt to assassinate a politician on British soil. See PA story COURTS Timms. NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. (Photo credit should read: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire)

The Iraq hitlist

Crime: A Muslim student was sentenced to life on Wednesday for trying to kill the Labour MP Stephen Timms in revenge for his having voted for the Iraq war. Roshonara Choudhry, 21, formerly a student at King’s College London, stabbed the MP for East Ham twice in the stomach during a constituency surgery in Beckton, east London, in May.

Timms, 55, recalled how Choudhry had “looked friendly” and pretended she was going to shake hands before she lunged at him. He was saved by his aide, who grabbed her before she could strike again. Choudhry told police: “I was not going to stop until someone made me. I wanted to kill him ... I was going to get revenge for the people of Iraq.”